Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:37:14 -0500 (EST) From: John D Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu> To: Skynet1@cris.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95L.961031103451.28260C-100000@unixs6.cis.pitt.edu> In-Reply-To: <9610300316.AA22917@voyager.cris.com>
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you should use the vipw utility these days, instead of merely editing
the passwd file. There is a form of locking that is done by vipw, which
runs cat_mkdb on the passwd file to make the various *passwd.db file
types. If those are not changed, then the system will still believe that
the user exists. Once they are, the system will change its mind.
-jd
(/etc/passwd is now merely an informational file for programs to find
various information out about users, like their full names and their
login shells).
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jddst19+@pitt.edu John Duncan
Freshman, University of Pittsburgh
"I'm not a doctor, but I ate one at the UPMC..."
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